tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86848269319296555812015-09-16T15:51:54.938-07:00Art-Deco-Odysseymeyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-57348503917148482942010-04-08T03:36:00.001-07:002010-04-08T03:36:59.244-07:00Ulysse rejetant le voile<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72xsKp_ljI/AAAAAAAAFvI/HXQbtsWrraI/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Ulysse.rejetant.le.voile.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72xsKp_ljI/AAAAAAAAFvI/HXQbtsWrraI/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Ulysse.rejetant.le.voile.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457713695775757874" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-19557623354043985192010-04-08T03:35:00.000-07:002010-04-08T03:36:05.862-07:00Ulysse pleurant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72xgA4gxUI/AAAAAAAAFvA/1fDqDuY8s6U/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Ulysse.pleurant.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72xgA4gxUI/AAAAAAAAFvA/1fDqDuY8s6U/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Ulysse.pleurant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457713486993868098" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-388948346926407972010-04-08T03:34:00.000-07:002010-04-08T03:35:12.500-07:00Ulysse construit son radeau<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72xN9LKBbI/AAAAAAAAFu4/UNeqF_CRqsw/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Ulysse.construit.son.radeau.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72xN9LKBbI/AAAAAAAAFu4/UNeqF_CRqsw/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Ulysse.construit.son.radeau.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457713176760681906" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-5331433301132291662010-04-08T03:27:00.001-07:002010-04-08T03:34:00.242-07:00TiresiasIn Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo; Tiresias participated fully in seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.<br />Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: one, in two episodes, recounts Tiresias' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera; a second group recounts his blinding by Athena; a third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias.<br />Tiresias was a prophet of Apollo. According to the mythographic compendium Bibliotheke, different stories were told of the cause of his blindness, the most direct being that he was simply blinded by the gods for revealing their secrets. An alternate story told by the poet Pherecydes was followed in Callimachus' poem "The Bathing of Pallas"; in it, Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked.[4] His mother, Chariclo, a nymph of Athena, begged Athena to undo her curse, but the goddess could not; instead, she cleaned his ears, giving him the ability to understand birdsong, thus the gift of augury.<br />On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese, as Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes, he hit the pair a smart blow with his stick. Hera was not pleased, and she punished Tiresias by transforming him into a woman. As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married and had children, including Manto, who also possessed the gift of prophecy. According to some versions of the tale, Lady Tiresias was a prostitute of great renown. After seven years as a woman, Tiresias again found mating snakes; depending on the myth, either she made sure to leave the snakes alone this time, or, according to Hyginus, trampled on them. As a result, Tiresias was released from his sentence and permitted to regain his masculinity. This ancient story is recorded in lost lines of Hesiod.<br />In a separate episode, Tiresias was drawn into an argument between Hera and her husband Zeus, on the theme of who has more pleasure in sex: the man, as Hera claimed; or, as Zeus claimed, the woman, as Tiresias had experienced both. Tiresias replied "Of ten parts a man enjoys one only."Hera instantly struck him blind for his impiety. Zeus could do nothing to stop her, but he did give Tiresias the gift of foresight and a lifespan of seven lives.<br />Stripped of its narrative, anecdotal and causal connections, the mythic figure of Tiresias combines several archaic elements: the blind seer; the impious interruption of a natural rite ; serpents and staff ; a holy man's double gender ; and competition between deities.<br />Tiresias's background, fully male and then fully female, was important, both for his prophecy and his experiences. Also, prophecy was a gift given only to the priests and priestesses. Therefore, Tiresias offered Zeus and Hera evidence and gained the gift of male and female priestly prophecy. How he obtained his information varied: sometimes, like the oracles, he would receive visions; other times he would listen for the songs of birds, or ask for a description of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings, and so interpret them.<br />Tiresias makes a dramatic appearance in the Odyssey, book XI, in which Odysseus calls up the spirits of the dead . "So sentient is Tiresias, even in death," observes Marina Warner"that he comes up to Odysseus and recognizes him and calls him by name before he has drunk the black blood of the sacrifice; even Odysseus' own mother cannot accomplish this, but must drink deep before her ghost can see her son for himself".<br />As a seer, "Tiresias" was "a common title for soothsayers throughout Greek legendary history" . In Greek literature, Tiresias's pronouncements are always gnomic but never wrong. Often when his name is attached to a mythic prophecy, it is introduced simply to supply a personality to the generic example of a seer, not by any inherent connection of Tiresias with the myth: thus it is Tiresias who tells Amphytrion of Zeus and Alcmena and warns the mother of Narcissus that the boy will thrive as long as he never knows himself. This is his emblematic role in tragedy . Like most oracles, he is generally extremely reluctant to offer the whole of what he sees in his visions.<br />In Hellenistic and Roman times Tiresias' sex-change was embroidered upon and expanded into seven episodes, with appropriate amours in each, probably written by the Alexandrian Ptolemaeus Chennus, but attributed by Eustathius to Sostratus. Tiresias is presented as a complexly liminal figure, with a foot in each of many oppositions, mediating between the gods and mankind, male and female, blind and seeing, present and future, and this world and the Underworld.<br />Tiresias appears as the name of a recurring character in several stories and Greek tragedies concerning the legendary history of Thebes. In The Bacchae, by Euripides, Tiresias appears with Cadmus, the founder and first king of Thebes, to warn the current king Pentheus against denouncing Dionysus as a god. Along with Cadmus, he dresses in women's clothing to go up the mountain to worship Dionysus with the Theban women.<br />In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus, the king of Thebes, calls upon Tiresias to aid in the investigation of the killing of the previous king Laius. At first, Tiresias refuses to give a direct answer and instead hints that the killer is someone Oedipus really does not wish to find. However, after being provoked to anger by Oedipus' accusation first that he has no foresight and then that Tiresias had had a hand in the murder, he reveals that in fact it was Oedipus himself who had committed the crime. Outraged, Oedipus throws him out of the palace, but then afterwards realizes the truth.<br />Oedipus had handed over the rule of Thebes to his sons Eteocles and Polynices but Eteocles refused to share the throne with his brother. Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes recounts the story of the war which followed. In it, Eteocles and Polynices kill each other, and Megareus kills himself because of Tiresias' prophecy that a voluntary death from a Theban would save the city.<br />Tiresias also appears in Sophocles' Antigone. Creon, now king of Thebes, refuses to allow Polynices to be buried. His niece, Antigone, defies the order and is caught; Creon decrees that she is to be buried alive. The gods express their disapproval of Creon's decision through Tiresias. However, Antigone has already hanged herself rather than be buried alive. When Creon arrives at the tomb where she is to be interred, his son, Haemon who was betrothed to Antigone, attacks Creon and then kills himself. When Creon's wife, Eurydice, is informed of her son and Antigone's deaths, she too takes her own life.<br />Tiresias and his prophecy are also involved in the story of the Epigoni.<br />Tiresias died after drinking water from the tainted spring Tilphussa, where he was struck by an arrow of Apollo. After his death he was visited in the underworld by Odysseus, to whom he gave valuable advice concerning the rest of his voyage, specifically concerning the cattle of Helios, advice which Odysseus' men did not follow, to their peril.meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-35762252982614955862010-04-08T03:26:00.000-07:002010-04-08T03:27:16.628-07:00Tiresias<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72vcFKCD8I/AAAAAAAAFuw/vgQours2RUE/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Tiresias.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72vcFKCD8I/AAAAAAAAFuw/vgQours2RUE/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Tiresias.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457711220398362562" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-80600776304901923282010-04-08T03:20:00.000-07:002010-04-08T03:26:25.531-07:00PenelopeIn Homer's Odyssey, Penelópē is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually rejoined with him. Her name has traditionally been associated with faithfulness, and so it was with the Greeks and Romans, but some recent feminist readings offer a more ambiguous interpretation.<br /><br />Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus (Ulysses in Roman mythology), and daughter of Icarius and his wife Periboea. She only has one son by Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. She waits twenty years for the final return of her husband, during which she has a hard time snubbing marriage proposals from 108 odious suitors (including Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus and Peisandros, (led by Antinous).<br />On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. She has devised tricks to delay her suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished. Every night for three years, she undoes part of the shroud, until some unfaithful maidens discover her chicanery and reveal it to the suitors.<br /><br />Because of her efforts to put off remarriage, Penelope is often seen as a symbol of connubial fidelity. Although we are reminded several times of her fidelity, Penelope does begin to become restless , and longs to "display herself to her suitors, fan their hearts, inflame them more" .As Irene de Jong comments:<br />As so often, it is Athena who takes the initiative in giving the story a new direction . . . Usually the motives of mortal and god coincide, here they do not: Athena wants Penelope to fan the Suitor's desire for her and (thereby) make her more esteemed by her husband and son; Penelope has no real motive . . . she simply feels an unprecedented impulse to meet the men she so loathes . . . adding that she might take this opportunity to talk to Telemachus.<br />She is ambivalent, variously calling out for Artemis to kill her and, apparently, considering marrying one of the suitors. When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand. "For the plot of the Odyssey, of course, her decision is the turning point, the move that makes possible the long-predicted triumph of the returning hero".<br />There is debate as to whether she is aware that Odysseus is behind the disguise. To Penelope and the suitors' knowledge, Odysseus would easily surpass all in any test of masculine skill. Since Odysseus seems to be the only person who can actually use the bow, it could merely have been another delaying tactic of Penelope's.<br />When the contest of the bow begins, none of the suitors is able to string the bow, but Odysseus does, and wins the contest. Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors- Antinous first who he finds drinking from Odysseus' cup - with help from Telemachus, Athena and two servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd. Odysseus has now revealed himself in all his glory, (with a little makeover by Athena) and it is standard for all to recognize him and be happy. Penelope, however, cannot believe that her husband has really returned—she fears that it is perhaps some god in disguise as Odysseus, as was the case in the story of Alcmene—and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber. Odysseus protests that this cannot be done since he made the bed himself and knows that one of its legs is a living olive tree. Penelope finally accepts that he truly is her husband, a moment that highlights their homophrosyne .<br />In one story of the Epic Cycle, subsequent to Odysseus' death, Penelope marries his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she becomes the mother of Italus. Telemachus also marries Circe when Penelope and Telemachus bring Odysseus's body to Aeaea.meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-34701472791377813482010-04-08T03:19:00.002-07:002010-04-08T03:20:47.761-07:00Penelope aux pieds d'Ulysse<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72t2MZufYI/AAAAAAAAFuo/e0eNRpqlPk4/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Penelope.aux.pieds.d_Ulysse.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72t2MZufYI/AAAAAAAAFuo/e0eNRpqlPk4/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Penelope.aux.pieds.d_Ulysse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457709469996580226" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-77687452761552017982010-04-08T03:19:00.001-07:002010-04-08T03:19:37.787-07:00SirensIn Greek mythology, the Sirens were three dangerous bird-women, portrayed as seductresses. Roman poets placed them on an island called Sirenum scopuli. In some later, rationalized traditions the literal geography of the "flowery" island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: sometimes on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, near Paestum, or in Capreae. All such locations were surrounded by cliffs and rocks. Sailors who sailed near were compelled by the Sirens' enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast.<br />When the Sirens were given a parentage they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon . Although they lured mariners, for the Greeks the Sirens in their "meadow starred with flowers" were not sea deities. Roman writers linked the Sirens more closely to the sea, as daughters of Phorcys.<br />Their number is variously reported as between two and five. In the Odyssey, Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the Sirens as two. Later writers mention both their names and number: some state that there were three, Peisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia (Tzetzes, ad Lycophron 7l2) or Parthenope, Ligeia, and Leucosia (Eustathius, loc. cit.; Strabo v. §246, 252 ; Servius' commentary on Virgil's Georgics iv. 562); Eustathius (Commentaries §1709) states that they were two, Aglaopheme and Thelxiepeia. Their individual names are variously rendered in the later sources as Thelxiepeia/Thelxiope/Thelxinoe, Molpe, Aglaophonos/Aglaope/Aglaopheme, Pisinoe/Peisinoë/Peisithoe, Parthenope, Ligeia, Leucosia, Raidne, and Teles.<br />The Sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later folklore as fully aquatic and mermaid-like; the facts that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids. However, "the sirens, though they sing to mariners, are not sea-maidens," Harrison had cautioned; "they dwell on an island in a flowery meadow."<br />According to Ovid , the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted. Their song is continually calling on Persephone. The term "siren song" refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad result. Later writers have inferred that the Sirens were anthropophagous, based on Circe's description of them "lolling there in their meadow, round them heaps of corpses rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones."<br />As Jane Ellen Harrison notes of " The Ker as siren:" "It is strange and beautiful that Homer should make the Sirens appeal to the spirit, not to the flesh." For the matter of the siren song is a promise to Odysseus of mantic truths; with a false promise that he will live to tell them, they sing,<br />Once he hears to his heart's content, sails on, a wiser man. We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so— all that comes to pass on the fertile earth, we know it all!<br />"They are mantic creatures like the Sphinx with whom they have much in common, knowing both the past and the future," Harrison observed. "Their song takes effect at midday, in a windless calm. The end of that song is death." That the sailors' flesh is rotting away, though, would suggest it has not been eaten. It has been suggested that, with their feathers stolen, their divine nature kept them alive, but unable to provide for their visitors, who starved to death by refusing to leave.<br />Sirens combine women and birds in various ways. In early Greek art Sirens were represented as birds with large women's heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. Later, they were represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings, playing a variety of musical instruments, especially harps. The tenth century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda[12] says that from their chests up Sirens had the form of sparrows, below they were women, or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces. Birds were chosen because of their beautiful voices. Later Sirens were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive.<br />The first century Roman historian Pliny the Elder discounted Sirens as pure fable, "although Dinon, the father of Clearchus, a celebrated writer, asserts that they exist in India, and that they charm men by their song, and, having first lulled them to sleep, tear them to pieces." In his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote of the Siren, "The siren sings so sweetly that she lulls the mariners to sleep; then she climbs upon the ships and kills the sleeping mariners."<br />In 1917, Franz Kafka wrote in The Silence of the Sirens, "Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never."<br />The so-called "Siren of Canosa" accompanied the deceased among grave goods in a burial and seems to have some psychopomp characteristics, guiding the dead on the after-life journey. The cast terracotta figure bears traces of its original white pigment. The woman bears the feet and the wings and tail of a bird. It is conserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid.meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-29313190219064430162010-04-08T03:12:00.000-07:002010-04-08T03:14:12.433-07:00Les Sirenes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72sVtIuBOI/AAAAAAAAFug/OIhWNGfi04s/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Les.sir_nes.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S72sVtIuBOI/AAAAAAAAFug/OIhWNGfi04s/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Les.sir_nes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457707812336305378" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-47699178372365790632010-04-06T08:19:00.000-07:002010-04-06T08:20:03.907-07:00La source aux belles eaux<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tRDI9yl_I/AAAAAAAAFuY/jN9xXe6_FN0/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.La.source.aux.belles.eaux.o_.la.ville.s_abreuve.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tRDI9yl_I/AAAAAAAAFuY/jN9xXe6_FN0/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.La.source.aux.belles.eaux.o_.la.ville.s_abreuve.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457044487877597170" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-80336954977531345802010-04-06T08:18:00.000-07:002010-04-06T08:19:15.778-07:00Le croiseur change en pierre<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tQzNwVe1I/AAAAAAAAFuQ/3Isa7ogJF9I/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.croiseur.chang_.en.pierre.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tQzNwVe1I/AAAAAAAAFuQ/3Isa7ogJF9I/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.croiseur.chang_.en.pierre.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457044214285433682" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-37839582623994145812010-04-06T08:12:00.000-07:002010-04-06T08:18:12.543-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tPbN3gr8I/AAAAAAAAFuI/vd9Y58sXJwk/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Pr_sage.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tPbN3gr8I/AAAAAAAAFuI/vd9Y58sXJwk/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Pr_sage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457042702487039938" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-83264499422767930072010-04-06T08:11:00.000-07:002010-04-06T08:12:15.358-07:00Le Cyclope<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tPNg3iZgI/AAAAAAAAFuA/eOcPK4IYZGE/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.Cyclope.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7tPNg3iZgI/AAAAAAAAFuA/eOcPK4IYZGE/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.Cyclope.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457042467069257218" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-15420033993184338342010-04-03T08:16:00.001-07:002010-04-03T08:16:31.228-07:00In Greek mythology, Scylla was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—-so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa.<br />Scylla was a horrible sea monster with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth.Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail and with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist. She was one of the children of Phorcys and either Hecate, Crataeis, Lamia or Ceto . Some sources, including Stesichorus cite her parents as Triton and Lamia.<br />Traditionally the strait has been associated with the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily, but more recently this theory has been challenged, and the alternative location of Cape Scilla in northwest Greece has been suggested by Tim Severin.<br />The phrase "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being in a state where one is between two dangers and moving away from one will cause you to be in danger from the other.<br />In Homer's Odyssey XII, Odysseus is given advice by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship: "Hug Scylla's crag—sail on past her—top speed! Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship than lose your entire crew"[3] she warns and tells Odysseus to bid Crataeis prevent her from pouncing more than once. Odysseus then successfully sails his ship past Scylla and Charybdis, but Scylla manages to catch six of his men, devouring them alive:meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-59630704677634950292010-04-03T08:11:00.000-07:002010-04-03T08:12:43.266-07:00Scylla<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7da0rq_b1I/AAAAAAAAFtw/O7ANRWMJUxM/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Scylla.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7da0rq_b1I/AAAAAAAAFtw/O7ANRWMJUxM/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Scylla.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455929334705385298" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-81104882359467797742010-04-03T08:09:00.000-07:002010-04-03T08:10:57.825-07:00Le Grand Chêne de Zeus<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7daSyTlEsI/AAAAAAAAFto/pfUdxFeYh0I/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.grand.ch_ne.de.Zeus.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7daSyTlEsI/AAAAAAAAFto/pfUdxFeYh0I/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.grand.ch_ne.de.Zeus.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455928752370684610" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-51510189510479594222010-04-03T08:07:00.000-07:002010-04-03T08:09:13.800-07:00Le Pere et le Fils Pleuraient<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dZ2Tm0ysI/AAAAAAAAFtg/bW-uiKvXqJU/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.p_re.et.le.fils.pleuraient.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dZ2Tm0ysI/AAAAAAAAFtg/bW-uiKvXqJU/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.p_re.et.le.fils.pleuraient.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455928263093570242" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-22075626900794211042010-04-03T08:05:00.002-07:002010-04-03T08:07:30.181-07:00Serais-tu l'un des dieux<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dZXZD4exI/AAAAAAAAFtY/uBYnEkxVbFc/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Serais_tu.l_un.des.dieux_.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dZXZD4exI/AAAAAAAAFtY/uBYnEkxVbFc/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Serais_tu.l_un.des.dieux_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455927731981679378" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-19401617229042328292010-04-03T08:05:00.001-07:002010-04-03T08:05:33.257-07:00The son of Odysseus and Penelope . He was still an infant at the time when his father went to Troy, and in his absence of nearly twenty years he grew up to manhood. After the gods in council had determined that Odysseus should return home from the island of Ogygia, Athena, assuming the appearance of Mentes, king of the Taphians, went to Ithaca, and advised Telemachus to eject the troublesome suitors of his mother from his house, and to go to Pylos and Sparta, to gather information concerning his father. Telemachus followed the advice, but the suitors refused to quit his house; and Athena, in the form of Mentes, accompanied Telemachus to Pylos. There they were hospitably received by Nestor, who also sent his own son to conduct Telemachus to Sparta. Menelaus again kindly received him, and communicated to him the prophecy of Proteus concerning Odysseus. From Sparta Telemachus returned home; and on his arrival there, he found his father, with the swineherd Eumaeus. But as Athena had metamorphosed him into a beggar, Telemachus did not recognise his father until the latter disclosed to him who he was. Father and son now agreed to punish the suitors ; and when they were slain or dispersed, Telemachus accompanied his father to the aged Laertes. In the Post-Homeric traditions, we read that Palamedes, when endeavouring to persuade Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy, and the latter feigned idiocy, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough with which Odysseus was ploughing. According to some accounts, Telemachus became the father of Perseptolis either by Polycaste, the daughter of Nestor, or by Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous. Others relate that he was induced by Athena to marry Circe, and became by her the father of Latinus , or that he married Cassiphone, a daughter of Circe, but in a quarrel with his mother-in-law he slew her, for which in his turn he was killed by Cassiphone. He is also said to have had a daughter called Roma, who married Aeneas. One account states that Odysseus, in consequence of a prophecy that his son was dangerous to him, sent him away from Ithaca. Servius makes Telemachus the founder of the town of Clusium in Etruria.meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-58131232324271621292010-04-03T08:00:00.000-07:002010-04-03T08:01:26.476-07:00Telemaque attachait a ses pieds ses plus belles sandales<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dYAZVPKTI/AAAAAAAAFtQ/l1R4b7-YwwQ/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.T_l_maque.attachait._.ses.pieds.ses.plus.belles.sandales.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dYAZVPKTI/AAAAAAAAFtQ/l1R4b7-YwwQ/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.T_l_maque.attachait._.ses.pieds.ses.plus.belles.sandales.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455926237405849906" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-44709583592726188582010-04-03T07:58:00.000-07:002010-04-03T07:59:47.152-07:00Le Port<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dXz4Mn-4I/AAAAAAAAFtI/sAKzgI1J3-8/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.port.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dXz4Mn-4I/AAAAAAAAFtI/sAKzgI1J3-8/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.Le.port.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455926022352927618" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-71131247187274082942010-04-03T07:56:00.000-07:002010-04-03T07:58:47.633-07:00la Fillette a la Cruche<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dXfl_WIVI/AAAAAAAAFtA/15JMUV2j3Is/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.La.fillette._.la.cruche.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dXfl_WIVI/AAAAAAAAFtA/15JMUV2j3Is/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.La.fillette._.la.cruche.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455925673868009810" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-72575314732004214952010-04-03T07:55:00.001-07:002010-04-03T07:55:57.553-07:00La Fille de Dymas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dW40_j7LI/AAAAAAAAFs4/G_R94ITUgyk/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.La.fille.de.Dymas.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dW40_j7LI/AAAAAAAAFs4/G_R94ITUgyk/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.La.fille.de.Dymas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455925007880547506" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-8684053988477568622010-04-03T07:54:00.000-07:002010-04-03T07:55:05.929-07:00DemodocosIn the Odyssey by Homer, Demodocus is a poet who often visits the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians on the island of Scherie. During Odysseus' stay on Scherie, Demodocus performs three narrative songs. Two of these, from the cycle of the Trojan War, are the quarrel between Odysseus and Achilles, and the story of the Trojan War.<br />Both performances are curtailed because Odysseus is distressed at reliving his own experiences in this way. Demodocus's other song, which is performed in the market-place of Scherie to the accompaniment of dancing, concerns the love affair of Ares and Aphrodite, an amusing tale which gives pleasure to all its listeners.<br />Demodocus is described as blind: "The squire now came, leading their favourite bard, whom the Muse loved above all others, though she had mingled good and evil in her gifts, robbing him of his eyes but granting him the gift of sweet song." It may well have been on the basis of this portrayal, viewed as a self-portrait, that Homer, identified as the author of the Odyssey, was said by later Greeks to have been blind. In Greek art, he is often seen with an eyeball, but it is badly wounded and therefore limits his sight to barely nothing.meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684826931929655581.post-88190964793102429232010-04-03T07:50:00.001-07:002010-04-03T07:52:01.961-07:00Demodocos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dV5Y4WblI/AAAAAAAAFsw/BGTeE5QM4I4/s1600/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.L_A_de.Demodocos.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V_fyQhxg_n4/S7dV5Y4WblI/AAAAAAAAFsw/BGTeE5QM4I4/s400/Pochoirs.Schmied.Odyss_e.1932.5_7_8_2inches.L_A_de.Demodocos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455923918002351698" /></a>meyerprintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811840908346198119noreply@blogger.com0